The name here is Dennis, and I've been a shortwave radio listener since late 2000 when I bought my first shortwave radio from Radio Shack, the Optimus multiband radio. Ever since then I have owned many radios including various Radio Shack DX radios, the Icom IC-R75, two different Hallicrfters radios, the Hammarlund HQ 100A, and so on and so forth.

My favorite domestic shortwave station is WBCQ, and my favorite international station is NHK.

I'm currently using two different antennas. The first one is a homemade fan dipole, and the second antenna is an Alpha Delta DX-SWL sloping antenna. The fan dipole is approximately 15 to 20 feet off the ground, and the DX-SWL is about 15 feet off of the ground.